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most of the work, but he ceme in today with
sone sort of virus infection. I thought he
could meke it, but he went home a Little
while ego with a hich temrersture and so
I'll give you some of the background and then
Mr. Solon will carry on for Hr. Breslin,
This atudy which we call or designated as a Fallout Counter Meagure Study, resulted from two things which happened coinoidentally.
First of all, Bob Crosbie and I
visited over at General Hubner's office here
in New York.
General Hubner is Director of
Civil Defense here. He had a very simple
problem,
They were building some schools up
in Westchester,
They had the designs for
the cellar and the super structure
wanted to know how much protection
sign would sfford against fallout,
changes could be made within thelr
and he
this dewhat minor
budgetary
limitations to give more proteotion and it
suddenly dawned on us that here was 1955,
thet if you want to solve a problem of this
kind you've got to hire a physicist and he
haa to start from scratch with the quality
of fallout radiation, cslculate all his